06.22.05
Posted in Web, Technology at 6:33 pm by Danny Dawson
A friend asked me recently if she could print some of my graffiti photos to hang on her wall. I was honored and thrilled, and I decided I wanted to make it easier for her. In doing so, I thought it would be nice to offer this tool to everyone else as well.
Through collaboration with Jason Rhyley, the two of us were able to create a Greasemonkey script for Firefox which adds Shutterfly print ordering capability to Flickr.
What does that mean? That means you can now order prints of your Flickr photos (or anyone else’s Flickr photos) with just a couple clicks.
How to get it working:
1. Install Firefox and Greasemonkey, if you haven’t already. (If you’ve just installed Greasemonkey, you’ll need to restart Firefox once before moving on.)
2. Right click the link to the Flickr/Shutterfly Integration script and click “Install User Script…” When prompted, click OK.
3. Go visit a photo page. Down in the bottom-right, in the “Additional Information” section, there will be a link that says “Order Prints”. Click it.
4. If you want to add more photos to your order, repeat step 3.
Known issues:
- If a really large picture is added to the cart, the image dimensions might not pass correctly. If this happens, remove the picture from the cart and try it again. The image should take less time to load the second time around because Firefox will have cached it, and adding it to the cart now should work just fine. This will be fixed in a future release. Fixed. See below.
I will update this blog post with changes in the future.
I would also like to strongly recommend Jason’s other Flickr GM scripts. He’s a wizard.
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06.21.05
Posted in Web, Technology at 2:32 pm by Danny Dawson
I got tired of the gigantic prompt that my last version of this bookmarklet made, and I figured that I might as well go ahead and fix the browser compatibility issues and give it a catchy yet descriptive name…
Here’s version 0.2 of ShurlThis!
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06.02.05
Posted in Web, Technology at 10:39 am by Danny Dawson
This is an outdated version of this script. There is a newer version available. Read about version 0.2 of ShurlThis!
I love shortcuts. I can’t tell you how much I love shortcuts.
I also hate long URLs.
And I love customization.
Thus, I present the Custom Shurl Bookmarklet. Just drag and drop it onto your Bookmarks Toolbar in Firefox. Hell, it might even work in IE or Safari. I wouldn’t know. I haven’t tested them. Edit: Works in IE 5.2 on the Mac, but not in Safari. It also doesn’t seem to work in IE 6 on the PC.
There are two ways to use this bookmarklet:
- Highlight a word or two on your current page and click the bookmarklet. You’ll be taken to the advanced Shurl result page with a link generated using the highlighted words.
- Without highlighting anything, click the bookmarklet. You’ll be prompted to enter a word or phrase which will be used to generate the link.
Still don’t understand? Just test it out by clicking this link: Custom Shurl Bookmarklet
I’ve changed all the references above to link to my post with the newest version, but just so I can remember how hilarious it was, here I’ll preserve version 0.1: Custom Shurl Bookmarklet
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Posted in Web, Technology at 10:33 am by Danny Dawson
First, a thanks to Fabricio Zuardi, who wrote the first Flickr Photo Page Enhancer, and another to Jason Rhyley, who then created an enhanced version.
Another thanks to Carlos Almendarez, whose incessant reposting of my Flickr pictures to his photostream (in order to have access to the easy html) annoyed me enough to seek out the Photo Page Enhancer in the first place.
The only problem here is that Carlos likes his LJ picture thumbnails larger than Jason’s enhanced script creates them. Thus aroused was my tinkering, and I altered Jason’s script to suit Carlos’ (and my own) needs. Here you are, enjoy:
Flickr Photo Page Enhancer Enhanced, then Altered
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